On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Greg Zartman wrote:

> Does anyone know what the follow error messages, from my messages log file,
> mean?  I am running SME 5.0
>
> *snip*
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x1c) failed
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: 02:00: rw=0, want=14, limit=4
> Sep 26 11:40:39 server kernel: dev 02:00 blksize=512 blocknr=28 sector=28
> size=512 count=1

Device 2,0 is the floppy disk drive:

bash-2.04$ ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw----    1 root     floppy     2,   0 Mar 23  2001 /dev/fd0
                                    ^^^^^^

You were doing something with the floppy disk drive, and some software is
trying to read beyond the end of the device.

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